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Despite their importance and impact, there are often scarce data for evaluating the environmental impact of roads across their whole life cycle, from producing raw materials through demolition. The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub’s streamlined framework reduces the overall data collection burden by up to 85 percent.

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August 9, 2024

New framework empowers pavement life-cycle decision-making while reducing data collection burden

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub research presents a streamlined pavement life-cycle assessment framework to enable a large set of stakeholders to conduct environmental analysis of pavements.

As part of a MITEI-sponsored field trip to the Netherlands to experience the country’s approach to sustainable energy, MIT students received a tour of EnTranCe, a facility dedicated to researching hydrogen usage within the energy grid, at Hanze University in Groningen.

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August 8, 2024

Going Dutch on climate

MIT students get first-hand view of climate-proofing the Netherlands.

“There’s an old adage: Unless you measure something, you can’t change it,” says Context Labs founder Dan Harple.

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August 7, 2024

Tracking emissions to help companies reduce their environmental footprint

Context Labs, led by Dan Harple SM ’13, uses AI-enabled data analytics and verification to help companies measure their true greenhouse emissions and document reductions.

“As critical challenges such as climate, health, energy, and food security increasingly affect people’s lives around the world, decision-makers need a better understanding of the earth in its full complexity — and that includes people, technologies, and institutions as well as environmental processes,” says Professor Noelle Selin.

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August 5, 2024

MIT School of Science launches Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

New center taps Institute-wide expertise to improve understanding of, and responses to, sustainability challenges.

In a paper appearing in the journal “Environmental Science and Technology,” MIT scientists report that they detected a clear signal of human influence on upper tropospheric ozone trends in a 17-year satellite record starting in 2005.

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August 2, 2024

Scientists find a human “fingerprint” in the upper troposphere’s increasing ozone

Knowing where to look for this signal will help researchers identify specific sources of the potent greenhouse gas.

The airy exterior of the Moghadam Building, designed by AW-ARCH to complement and extend the Green Building’s Brutalist tower, is sheathed with an innovative system of wood composite overlaid with bracketed glass panels that reflect the surrounding trees and green space.

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August 1, 2024

A bright and airy hub for climate at MIT

Together, the new Moghadam Building and refurbished Green Building form a vibrant new center to tackle pressing global concerns of sustainability and climate change.

Scientists participating in Operation Ice Camp 2024 display flags representing their countries.

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July 31, 2024

Researchers return to Arctic to test integrated sensor nodes

The nodes are intended to become part of a widespread sea-ice monitoring network.

Researchers found people’s exposure to particulate matter 2.5 microns or smaller rises by about 2.4 percent when daily travel patterns are taken into account.

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July 29, 2024

Study tracks exposure to air pollution through the day

Data from the Bronx account for people’s daily mobility patterns, reveal demographic disparities in exposure levels.

“Something that MIT has really instilled in me is the value of going in person and learning about how the research you're doing connects to real-world issues,” Aaron Berman says.

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July 25, 2024

Balancing economic development with natural resources protection

From scallop fishing in New Bedford to deforestation in the tropics, “our goal is to get some empirical traction on the problem,” says PhD student Aaron Berman.